Director: Kelsey Mann
Genre: Family/
Animation/ Drama/ Comedy
Runtime: 96
minutes
Year:
2024
Starring: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Phyllis Smith, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Lewis
Black, Kensington Tallman, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan. Paul Walter Hauser, Yvette
Nicole Brown, Ayo Edebiri,
Description: Riley is
entering puberty and experience brand new, more complex emotions as a result.
As Riley tries to adapt to her teenage years, her old emotions try to adapt to
the possibility of being replaced.
Review: As a child, life is simple. A child’s emotions are still basic, but it’s
a whole different story once puberty hits them. Snapping at parents, wanting to
belong, getting bored and, above all, a lot more worries come along. So too for
Riley, the happy-go-lucky girl who managed to embrace her sadness in the first film
to become more balanced. Riley is now thirteen and that balance is in danger of
disappearing completely to a host of new emotions affecting her life.
“Inside Out” was an outright
hit where the various emotions of human beings were explained extremely well
and in depth in a fun and colorful format. Nine years on, the second installment
is released with an attempt to bring Disney out of its slump (they haven’t
released the best films lately). In this, the emotions in Riley’s head succeed
all too well. And again has much emotional depth.
Its greatest strength lies
in the recognizability of the story and the accompanying emotions. Where we
already dealt with Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, we are now introduced
to Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment and Ennui.
Amy Poehler is still as
infectiously cheerful and determined as in the first film. She is the perfect
Joy. But Maya Hawke as Anxiety is the big surprise in “Inside Out 2”. She
perfectly manages to combine the hustle, anxiety, stress, panic and urge to
control that fits the emotion. She delivers her dialogue with great energy and you
can feel the emotion in every scene she is in.
All the emotions are
incredibly well played. The interactions unfold with great humor and the jokes
hit the mark. One of the other new emotions is Ennui (boredom), only with a small
role, but makes to most of the scarce moments it is in.
With “Inside Out 2”, Disney
seems to put its core values first again by creating a humanly relatable story
in a warm and cheerful setting. The complicated emotions are perfectly laid out
and made understandable. A great sequel.
Rating: 5/ 5
